China has always been seen in a negative light in America. As a Chinese-American, I felt conflicted with what to think about the relationship between the two countries. I didn’t truly understand why many Americans have a negative view over China. Recently, with COVID-19 plaguing the whole world, I caught a glimpse of how some Americans thought. David Firestein goes into more detail about how the US-China relationship has developed and fallen over the years. Nowadays, ⅔ of the American population say that they have some sort of negative view on China. This evolved from only 45-50% in past years. This can be directly correlated with COVID-19. Although the US and China have a poor relationship, there hasn’t been bloodshed since the Korean War in which China took many American lives (there was also a Chinese Embassy bombing in 1999). The idea of China possibly creating this virus and releasing it to target American lives breaks this lack of bloodshed exaggerating the anti-China attitude. Some saw COVID-19 as an act of war shattering over 50 years of “peace”. This thinking has led to many hate crimes on Asian-Americans prompting the Stop Asian Hate protests. This certainly hasn’t created much comfort in Asian countries either. In addition to the occurrence of COVID-19, the issue over Hong Kong has made many Americans feel ill towards China. China recently imposed a National Security Law which greatly limits speech about Hong Kong. This not only affects the Hong Kong area but the whole world as well. The law is very problematic and is out of legal jurisdiction. Before watching this conference, I had not known much about what was happening in Hong Kong recently. I heard about many of the COVID-19 theories but didn’t know about the past history of bloodshed with China. While this allows for some explanation for much of the hatred towards China, it doesn’t excuse the hate crimes or the harsh language used in reference to China.